Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success, only Dutch Representative J. H. van Royen had kind words for his country's action. U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which has been trying to mediate between the Dutch and Indonesians, gloomily suggested it might as well quit. Philippine Representative Carlos P. Romulo deplored the Council's "labyrinthine self-justifications." Australia's peppery Norman Makin cried that the Security Council could not "bury its head in the sands of Lake Success." Indonesia's L. N. Palar warned: "This is only the beginning of our war of self-defense...
...sands of Lake Success, the Council adjourned to have another go at the case this week. It was as though U.N. had never left home...
Shanghai's powerful city council-addressing the Communists as "gentlemen" instead of "bandits"-radioed its peace appeal direct to Red headquarters at Yenan. Peiping and Tientsin, completely isolated by Red armies, followed suit. The press burst out with reports that U.S. marines were leaving their base at Tsingtao (where they had been training Chinese navy personnel). The report was quickly denied by Washington, but it was nonetheless true that plans had been made for their withdrawal. From all sides, pressure increased on Chiang Kai-shek to retire in favor of a Chinese leader more acceptable to the Communists...
...knows," exploded a member of the London County Council, "why we ever took it on in the first place. The blasted thing's been a target ever since." The blasted thing was London's gleaming statue of Eros, God of Love. Time after time, on nights of revelry in Piccadilly Circus, while lovers ogled each other beneath Eros' outstretched wings, the fire brigade has had to remove hats from the god's wreathed head or frilly unmentionables from his poised limbs...
...Nationalists were in no mood to heed Epstein's protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone, with the Negroes...